>At least the browser is one app that can fully take advantage of multiple cores, unlike most apps out there. Nope. The vast majority of web pages and web apps

>At least the browser is one app that can fully take advantage of multiple cores, unlike most apps out there. Nope. The vast majority of web pages and web apps do work either on page load, or in direct response to user input. While in the background, they almost universally sit idle. Multicore has no benefit in this scenario. The exceptions are games and media, but music is the only case there where you are likely to have something actively running in the background. Unfortunately, audio decoding is so incredibly cheap now that the gains from using a separate core are negligible.